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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Storm Poem in 14 Words

Today is Poetry Friday...though I'm posting this on Thursday, this is my poem share. Thanks Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise, for hosting this gathering today. I love your "Auction" of beginning lines today. Such fun! It would be fun to try in a face to face group, too, where you can hear the poets' thoughts and bids for a line!
I am stealing the line, I've won my bid forLaura Purdie Salas has her 15 Words or Less Poem Challenge today, with a picture of a storm brewing over a skyline. Here's my offering today. It reminded me of a storm coming in over the trees and bluffs of Hokah, Minnesota, when we lived there - and LaCrosse, Wisconsin, when I taught there back a lifetime ago! It's been long enough that I can look at it differently; back then it was much more serious. Not sure I ever smiled when a storm laughed overhead. Especially that one that leveled the home we were building and strew the broken pieces of the house over the valley. Not funny at all, unless you ARE the storm.

Hi Donna, A lot of memory and emotion here, kind of a memory-storm. I'm sad to hear about the storm that leveled your house. That must have been frightening. I like the firs and bluffs, locating me in the poem at the beginning.

My most memorable storm is the one I watched from the front door back home in E. CO. Quarter-sized hail totaled my car. Our trees lost lots of leaves and the flower gardens were just a muddy mess we would have to replant. Later, walking and driving around, I saw corn fields reduced to stalks.